Why did the gardener need a cork? Because his garden sprang a leek! Danielle found this joke online and it seems rather apt this week - not only because of all the rain, but also we planted out some leeks. They don't look much in the photo here - just blades of grass really, but hopefully they will turn into tall thick leeks!
The Jersey Kale are coming up - ready for our summer competition.
We also planted out two courgette plants.
Meanwhile, the compost bins keep rotting down - this one has been topped up with shredded paper from the office and...
we raked up some grass to add to this one. Contractors have been in strimming, so we were making use of the by-product!
On a non-club note, the greenhouse community shop has also donated twelve more raised beds for use with classes next year. Miss Swallow is busy writing a course to allow pupils to try planting and learn about the basics of veg. growing, crop rotation, soil, insects and biodiversity etc. Hopefully pupils will enjoy it and you never know, some might even join the DiGGers if they get the bug!
Why did the gardener need a cork? Because his garden sprang a leek! Danielle found this joke online and it seems rather apt this week - not only because of all the rain, but also we planted out some leeks. They don't look much in the photo here - just blades of grass really, but hopefully they will turn into tall thick leeks!
The Jersey Kale are coming up - ready for our summer competition.
We also planted out two courgette plants.
Meanwhile, the compost bins keep rotting down - this one has been topped up with shredded paper from the office and...
we raked up some grass to add to this one. Contractors have been in strimming, so we were making use of the by-product!
On a non-club note, the greenhouse community shop has also donated twelve more raised beds for use with classes next year. Miss Swallow is busy writing a course to allow pupils to try planting and learn about the basics of veg. growing, crop rotation, soil, insects and biodiversity etc. Hopefully pupils will enjoy it and you never know, some might even join the DiGGers if they get the bug!
Oh, I hope not too many bugs! LOL
ReplyDeleteIt all looks very exciting and fun.
And speaking of bugs (I know they're not bugs, but I'm grasping at straws here for a segue), was the rhubarb damage due to slugs?
Not sure, we didn't find any. There is healthy new growth starting to come though so we are keeping an eye on it - so far no attack!
ReplyDeleteWell, it's pretty much got to be some kind of invertebrate ... a bigger animal, like a bunny, for instance, would start at the edge, not in the middle.
ReplyDeleteI think.
One dead giveaway of slugs (or snails) is the slime trail. It's easy to spot if you look at an angle where the light reflects off it, usually in the morning. Possibly it's from a caterpillar, and they wouldn't leave tracks.
Lacking any positive evidence, one could postulate little extraterrestrials, shooting at the leaves with their disintegrator pistols. I have no idea why they would do such a thing, however ... possibly interstellar hooliganism.
LOL ... well that must be it! Alien intervention! Maybe they'll be growing samples of our rhubarb in outer space!
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